Meanings of cryptic crossword in English

The current system is more indecipherable than The Irish Times cryptic crossword.

Some look great on paper, others look like clues on a cryptic crossword.

I haven't got a cryptic crossword brain, my mum and sister have it.

In his retirement, he loved doing the Guardian cryptic crossword by the club's pool.

Until very recently I always did the cryptic crossword.

I enjoy the cryptic crossword.

A woman has accepted an unusual offer of marriage - after her boyfriend proposed using the The Times newspaper's cryptic crossword.

The name of Nuala Considine had somehow escaped me until this week, when I found it among the answers in a cryptic crossword.

Could his creation, celebrating its 60th anniversary tomorrow with the publication of Crozier's diamond-jubilee cryptic crossword, qualify as the longest-running of its kind?

It's like trying to complete a cryptic crossword while reciting the 13 times table backwards while on a tightrope over the Grand Canyon.

He also finds time to compile cryptic crosswords for The Guardian and the Financial Times.

Her listed interests include learning to play the saxophone, supporting Manchester United, and doing cryptic crosswords.

Author of 'How to cook little fish (3): A hundred New Zealand Listener Cryptic Crossword puzzles with answers and explanations.

Crozier compiled cryptic crosswords for the newspaper for 67 years, the first of which appeared on March 13th, 1943.

Colin wasn't just intelligent -he had a devious cast of mind that made him expert in the solving and setting of cryptic crosswords.

He is the author of The Naked Surgeon and The Angina Monologues and a compiler of cryptic crosswords for The Guardian and the Financial Times.